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    Robot-assisted repair of complicated inguinal hernia: Advantages in comparison with conventional repair

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    The adoption rate of robot-assisted surgery has skyrocketed in recent years, despite limited evidence, an unclear clinical benefit, and an increase in cost. The laparoscopic approach to inguinal hernia repair by either transabdominal or extraperitoneal approach has gradually gained traction owing to distinct advantages over traditional open repairs. Although robotic inguinal hernia repair has been established as a safe alternative to conventional laparoscopy, as of yet no superiority has been proven. We aim to give an overview of certain clinical situations, in which the robot might be advantageous. Specifically, we discuss inguinoscrotal hernia repair, inguinal hernia repair after prostatectomy, and mesh explantation. In our opinion, robotic systems are an invaluable tool in the case of mesh resection or recurrence after previous anterior and posterior repairs. With the increased expansion of the surgical tools and techniques to repair abdominal wall problems, a definitive and clear rule as to which cases should be handled robotically and which should not will be difficult and probably unattainable. We are very much proponents of a tailored approach, where every individual case deserves its surgical plan, bearing in mind all aspects of a patient, with the aim of the best surgical outcome

    Mauersegler weiter Wege. Mathias Enard: Kompass

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    Analysis of the peculiar scientific narrative in the novel of the Prix-Goncourt winning author Mathias Enard

    Les commissions électorales en Afrique de l'Ouest

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    [author: Mathias Hounkpe ; Ismaila Madior Fall]Electronic ed.: Abuja ; Bonn : FES, 201

    Paul Bourget, écrivain engagé

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    Paul Bourget, A committed writer, Yehoshua Mathias. In the France of the early twentieth century, Paul Bourget's figure is that of a successful novelist who became gradually a «committed author». A monarchist, deeply conservative, passionate defender of religion and the family as the vital bases of the social order, he thus became the bard of the bourgeois ethic faced with the destabilization of modernity.Mathias Yehoshua. Paul Bourget, écrivain engagé. In: Vingtième Siècle, revue d'histoire, n°45, janvier-mars 1995. pp. 14-29

    „Nature must be felt“ – Alexander von Humboldt, pioneer of an ecological worldview and protagonist of „transversal reason“

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    Der Text erinnert zum 250sten Geburtsjahr an Alexander von Humboldt, ein Vordenker für eine ökologische Sicht der Welt und ein früher Protagonist „transversaler Vernunft“. Er ist als Ideengeber für die „neuen Naturtherapien“, für die Integrative Therapie und für eine ökologische Sicht in der Psychotherapie eine unverzichtbare Quelle. Einige aus dieser Perspektive wichtige Aspekte seines Denkens und Werkes werden aufgezeigt. Er ist ein Referenzautor für transversales und integratives Konzeptualisieren in unserer Zeit.The text commemorates the 250th year of birth of Alexander von Humboldt, a thought leader for an ecological view of the world and an early protagonist of „transversal reason“. He is an indispensable source of ideas for the „new nature therapies“, for integrative therapy and for an ecological viewpoint in psychotherapy. Some important aspects of his thinking and work are shown from this perspective. He is a reference author for transversal and integrative conceptualization in our time.https://www.fpi-publikation.de/gruene-texte/17-2019-petzold-h-g-mathias-wiedemann-u-natur-muss-gefuehlt-werden-alexander-v-humboldt/peerReviewedpublishedVersio

    „Natur muss gefühlt werden“ – Alexander von Humboldt, Vordenker einer ökologischen Weltsicht und Protagonist „transversaler Vernunft“

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    Der Text erinnert zum 250sten Geburtsjahr an Alexander von Humboldt, ein Vordenker für eine ökologische Sicht der Welt und ein früher Protagonist „transversaler Vernunft“. Er ist als Ideengeber für die „neuen Naturtherapien“, für die Integrative Therapie und für eine ökologische Sicht in der Psychotherapie eine unverzichtbare Quelle. Einige aus dieser Perspektive wichtige Aspekte seines Denkens und Werkes werden aufgezeigt. Er ist ein Referenzautor für transversales und integratives Konzeptualisieren in unserer Zeit.The text commemorates the 250th year of birth of Alexander von Humboldt, a thought leader for an ecological view of the world and an early protagonist of „transversal reason“. He is an indispensable source of ideas for the „new nature therapies“, for integrative therapy and for an ecological viewpoint in psychotherapy. Some important aspects of his thinking and work are shown from this perspective. He is a reference author for transversal and integrative conceptualization in our time.https://www.fpi-publikation.de/polyloge/25-2019-petzold-h-g-mathias-wiedemann-u-natur-muss-gefuehlt-werden-alexander-v-humboldt/peerReviewedpublishedVersio

    The reality of fiction: the ECO by Mathias Goeritz

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    Abstract This article covers the full biography of a building, the Experimental Museum El Eco, designed by Germanborn and Mexican émigré artist and architect Mathias Goeritz. It provides an approach intersecting the biography of the author, the history of the building, and prominent  individuals of the two cultural traditions, German and Mexican, who  participated in the creation of a very special and unique building: El Eco. On the one hand, the ethics of Expressionism, the interest in  non-European art, the cult of primitivism and the aesthetic system of the  pair of concepts abstraction-empathy, all stemming from German culture. On the other, the pantheistic religiosity of landscape, zoomorphism and anthropomorphism, the interest in masks, and the aesthetics of  monumental scale, stemming from pre-Cortesian Mexican culture. Taking  the stance of intertwining Mathias Goeritz parcours with those of individuals and issues from his German past and his Mexican future – highlighting the figures of Wilhelm Worringer, Paul Westheim, Luis Barragán, Edmundo O'Gorman, and Ida Rodríguez Prampolini – this article proposes a return  trip from fiction to reality, following in the footsteps of the author and  comparing them with the pathway of the very building El Eco

    Oswald Mathias Ungers and Sol LeWitt: Variations

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    One of the fundamentals of Oswald Mathias Ungers work is the definition of a new unity between art and architecture. What this investigation is focused on is the identification of the intersection point between art and architecture, considering the project for the Entrance to the Kaiserthermen in Trier (20032007) as case study, revealing the system of theoretical, methodological and compositional correspondences. Plastic art is Ungers' main interlocutor: one of the author's most important references is Sol LeWitt (1928-2007), an artist he admired and collected. Setting the work of Oswald Mathias Unger and Sol LeWitt side by side, offers the opportunity to underline the shared interpretation that the two authors have of the world of forms postulated by Henri Focillon (1881-1943) in Life of Forms, according to which form, autonomous with respect to time and place, has its own universe, governed by its own laws, space and matter. According to these premises, we propose to read Trier's building through the instruments of art, following the hypothesis that in this project art embodies a creative and positive component in the definition of architecture, a cultural stimulus that guides the author in the design process

    The open anterior component separation technique for large ventral and incisional abdominal wall reconstruction

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    Large defects in the abdominal wall have been a challenge for traditional surgical techniques. Over several decades, the development of what is now known as the anterior component separation technique (CST) has evolved to reduce tension through release of the lateral abdominal wall muscles. Initially, Albanese and later Ramirez described and popularized this technique.In this procedure, the space between the external oblique muscle and the internal oblique muscle is dissected immediately lateral to the rectus compartment, that is, at the level of the linea semilunaris. To reach this area, an extensive dissection of the subcutaneous tissue and bilateral dissection of the aponeurosis of the external oblique muscle is mandatory in an open standard approach. Unfortunately, this extensive dissection comes at the cost of higher wound morbidity rates.Herein, the surgical technique, the indications as well as the complications will be discussed and a short overview of the results of the latest systematic reviews will be presented, comparing the anterior CST with other surgical options to achieve fascial closure in large abdominal wall defects

    Correction to: Editorial: symmetries and asymmetries in physics

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    The article Editorial: symmetries and asymmetries in physics, written by Radin Dardashti, Mathias Frisch, Giovanni Valente, was originally published electronically on the publisher’s internet portal on 3 July 2020 without open access. With the author(s)’ decision to opt for Open Choice the copyright of the article changed on 16 June 2021 to © The Author(s) 2021 and the article is forthwith distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution
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